EmulatorJS Legal Games

[Chen Zhen]

I'm going to add a list of ROM sites to the games download list page. Keep in mind that the intent of the emulator being included in the Arcade is to host games that do not infringe on any copyright laws.  There are a ton of games in the public domain that fall into this category.

I will also be posting instructions on how to get the Arcade to recognize game console types automatically. In some cases this means manually renaming the game's zip file.

Here is one site for ROM games:
https://www.nesworld.com/content.php?data=homebrew

The Arcade will not save scores from those games but it does allow users to save or load their progress on their own device.

[AllMassive]

I will also be posting instructions on how to get the Arcade to recognize game console types automatically. In some cases this means manually renaming the game's zip file.

any news on that?
updated to latest arcade-version and copied files to 'ArcadeRetroArch/roms' - tried as *.zip and also unpacked, but no luck.
would be great if you could post some step-by-step instructions to get the whole thing running.
tried with gbs,nes,snes roms - but not luck :/
forum is running latest smf with php8.3 and 'ArcadeRetroArch/data/cores' seem to list the correct cores i should need.

[AllMassive]

my  problems were related to my restrictive browersettings - got it fixed now.
so when adding roms, they wont appear in the 'arcade list' and must always be manually selected via 'rom games'-list?

[Chen Zhen]

Current release:
The ROM games are only available to users (that have that permission) from a general/basic list.
If it doesn't recognize the console type then it has to be selected manually.
This is being changed in the upcoming release.


Upcoming release:
We are working on another stable release that will allow you to have the ROM games appear in the general list of games or on a private link.
With that new release, if the ROM games are on the general list of games you can still set a permission to only allow a select group to view & play them. Either way the list of ROM games will be presented in the current flash/HTML5 template scheme since the previous basic list template has been removed.

It still needs work & I don't have a planned release date for it just yet.

[AllMassive]

Upcoming release:

It still needs work & I don't have a planned release date for it just yet.

nice to read that!
allowing players to save their gamedata on the forum would also be great.

[Skhilled]

Sounds good!